Eva Mendes Talks About Her Secret Pregnancy

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Eva Mendes was a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where she talked about why she and Ryan Gosling kept the fact that she was pregnant a secret. Mendes even lied back in February when asked by the media if she was pregnant. Mendes and Gosling are known to be a very private couple and they were able to get the preganancy a secret into her seventh month.

Looking at the 40 year-old actress, you wouldn’t be able to tell that she had a child just 10 weeks ago. Asked how she got back into shape so quickly, Mendes said that breastfeeding helped a lot. She said that breastfeeding helps to make the uterus shrink back to normal size much faster.

Gosling is currently away from home, filming a new movie with Russel Crowe in Atlanta, but Mendes said that he flies back to Los Angeles very often to be with her and their daughter.